Motivational Quotes

Genius

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enoughto think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.

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Best Quotes about Genius

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wilde, Oscar

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Huxley, Aldous

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius is sorrow's child.

Adams, John

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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Stein, Gertrude

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To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Wilde, Oscar

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Aragon, Louis

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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Koestler, Arthur

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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Woolf, Virginia

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Pound, Ezra

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Hayden, B. R.

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Stael, Germaine De

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Fuller, Buckminster

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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Fuller, Margaret

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Churchill, Winston

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Calvino, Italo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Hugo, Victor

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone